Social and temporal structures in everyday collaboration
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Leveraging social networks for information sharing
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Modeling and predicting personal information dissemination behavior
Proceedings of the eleventh ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery in data mining
Real-world oriented information sharing using social networks
GROUP '05 Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
Reality mining: sensing complex social systems
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
CoNEXT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference
Mobile social closeness and communication patterns
CCNC'10 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE conference on Consumer communications and networking conference
Getting real: a naturalistic methodology for using smartphones to collect mediated communications
Advances in Human-Computer Interaction
Mobile social networking applications
Communications of the ACM
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The dissemination of information in social networks and the relative effect of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) use has long been an interesting area of study in the field of sociology, human computer interaction and computer supported cooperative work. To date, a lot of research has been conducted regarding an actor's mobile phone usage behavior while disseminating information within a mobile social network. In this study, we explore the structured network position of individuals using mobile phone and their ability to disseminate information within their social network. Our proposition is that an actor's ability to disseminate information within a social group is affected by their structural network position. In this paper, we determine an actor's structural network position by four different measures of centrality--(i) degree, (ii) closeness, (iii) betweenness, and (iv) eigenvector centrality. We analyse the Reality Mining dataset, which contains mobile phone usage data over a 9 month period for exploring the association between the structural positions of different actors in a temporal communication. We extract relational data to construct a social network of the mobile phone users in order to determine the association between their position in the network and their ability to disseminate information. The following questions form the basis for this study: Does information dissemination capability of an actor reflect their structural position within a social network? How do different measures of centrality associate with the information dissemination capability of an actor? Are highly central actors able to disseminate information more effectively than those who have a lower central position within a social network?